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How would you book AJ's final match? Let us know in the comments! Predicting WWE WrestleMania 41 Way Too Far In Advance  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbC9GGy-RI8 More wrestling news on https://wrestletalk.com/ 0:00 - Coming up... 0:18 - Bloodline: Civil War 3:46 - AJ Styles Leaving WWE 5:49 - Shocking WWE Releases 8:00 - WWE Draft Details 9:16 - Wyatt Family Returning? AJ Styles Leaving WWE, Shocking WWE Release, Wyatt Family Return?  | WrestleTalk #AJStyles #WWE #WyattFamily  Subscribe to WrestleTalk Podcasts   https://bit.ly/3pEAEIu Subscribe to partsFUNknown for lists, fantasy booking & more  https://bit.ly/32JJsCv Subscribe to NoRollsBarred  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5UQPZe-8v4_UP1uxi4Mv6A Subscribe to WrestleTalk  https://bit.ly/3gKdNK3 SUBSCRIBE TO THEM ALL! Make sure to enable ALL push notifications!  Watch the latest wrestling news: https://shorturl.at/pAIV3 Buy WrestleTalk Merch here! https://wrestleshop.com/   Follow WrestleTalk: Twitter: https://twitter.com/_WrestleTalk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WrestleTalk.Official Patreon: https://goo.gl/2yuJpo WrestleTalk Podcast on iTunes: https://goo.gl/7advjX WrestleTalk Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3uKx6HD  About WrestleTalk: Welcome to the official WrestleTalk YouTube channel! WrestleTalk covers the sport of professional wrestling - including WWE TV shows (both WWE Raw & WWE SmackDown LIVE), PPVs (such as Royal Rumble, WrestleMania & SummerSlam), AEW All Elite Wrestling, Impact Wrestling, ROH, New Japan, and more. Subscribe and enable ALL notifications for the latest wrestling WWE reviews and wrestling news.  Sources used for research: https://www.wrestlezone.com/news/1464155-report-details-on-tama-tonga-joining-wwe-update-on-jacob-fatu-and-hikuleo  https://www.cagesideseats.com/2024/4/13/24129380/bloodline-drama-jey-uso-battles-solo-sikoa-smackdown  https://wrestletalk.com/news/tama-tonga-wwe-debut-backstage-reaction/  https://www.wrestlinginc.com/1561575/wwe-legend-rikishi-shares-odd-reaction-son-jimmy-uso-destroyed-smackdown/  https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2024/4/14/24130033/aj-styles-la-knight-cody-rhodes-backlash-retirement  https://www.wrestlezone.com/news/1464070-report-sue-aitchison-has-been-let-go-by-wwe  https://wrestletalk.com/news/former-wwe-star-appearance-cancelled-contract-erick-rowan/  https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/1c4b2xx/pwinsider_update_on_erick_rowans_wwe_return/  ​​https://www.wrestlezone.com/news/1464242-report-update-on-which-nxt-stars-could-be-part-of-2024-wwe-draft

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00:00 AJ Styles says he's set to leave WWE!

00:03 WWE release several more names!

00:06 The Wyatt Family returning!

00:07 And more.

00:08 I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:18 On Tuesday 9th April, just two days after the events of WrestleMania 40, Luke, Pete

00:23 and I recorded a video predicting the match cards of WrestleMania 41.

00:29 Over the event a year away, we listed such mouthwatering clashes as Jade Cargill vs Bianca

00:34 Belair, The Rock vs Roman Reigns, and Logan Paul and KSI vs LA Knight and Simon Miller

00:40 with special guest referee Mr Beast.

00:42 And this…

00:43 Well, it seemed like the Bloodline were missing from night one, didn't it?

00:48 Like any good faction, they've splintered.

00:51 And the opening match of night two, in a first Blood match for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships,

01:00 is the Tag Team Champions of New Blood, Jacob Fatu and Tama Tonga against the OG Bloodline,

01:09 Solo Sakura and Jimmy Uso.

01:16 But four days later on the Friday 12th episode of SmackDown, I kind of got Bloodline's

01:21 Civil War right, as Solo Sakura debuted Tama Tonga where they both kicked Jimmy Uso out

01:26 of the faction.

01:27 Where Aikishi, Jimmy's own father, reacted by tweeting "BELIEVE THAT!

01:32 BLOOD DROP EMOJI!

01:33 FINGER ACKNOWLEDGING EMOJI!

01:35 TONGA FLAG EMOJI!

01:36 SAMOAN FLAG EMOJI!"

01:38 Dude, he's like your son.

01:41 Tonga, a founding member of the Bullet Club faction, was first approached to join WWE

01:45 eight years ago in 2016.

01:47 At the same time, they signed AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura and the Good Brothers away from New

01:52 Japan.

01:53 Tonga chose to stay in Japan to work with his family, teaming with his brothers Tangeloa

01:58 and Hikaleo.

01:59 Apparently WWE tried to sign him and Hikaleo again in 2023, but that was stopped due to

02:04 the company's hiring freeze when it was merging with the UFC.

02:08 On the 4th January this year, just after winning the Never Openweight Championship at WrestleKingdom,

02:13 Tonga announced he would be leaving New Japan when his contract expired.

02:17 After 14 years with the promotion, he wrestled his final match for New Japan on February

02:22 24th.

02:23 But despite AEW signing all of New Japan's other main stars, Fightful reports they never

02:28 made a play for him because his WWE signing seemed like an inevitability.

02:34 As for Tonga's actual SmackDown debut, Fightful adds WWE were happy with the reaction he received

02:39 considering his lack of exposure in the United States.

02:43 Unlike other recent surprise debuts, Tonga wasn't hidden away backstage from other

02:47 talent - like when CM Punk's WWE return legit pissed off Drew McIntyre.

02:51 And he's not the only member of New Blood apparently coming on board.

02:56 The former MLW World Heavyweight Champion and legitimate cousin of The Usos, so an Usi

03:02 Us, Jacob Fatu, has recently signed with WWE.

03:07 An idea has been pitched for Fatu and Tonga to form a tag team within the Bloodline, just

03:11 like their real-life fathers Tama and Haku respectively had teamed together as the Islanders

03:16 back in the 1980s.

03:18 Initially Tonga will be paired with Sokoa to get him over to a new audience.

03:22 It feels like we're heading towards Bloodline Civil War, especially with what went down

03:27 after the SmackDown broadcast ended.

03:30 Following Solo kicking Jimmy out earlier in the night, the show's dark match main

03:34 event saucer Koa take on his older brother Jey Uso.

03:37 How would you book a Bloodline Civil War feud?

03:40 Let me know in the comments where I'll be replying to people FROM OUTTA SAY THE FIRST

03:43 BLOOD MATCH OF WRESTLEMANIA 41.

03:46 Also on the Friday 12th episode of SmackDown, AJ Styles beat Kevin Owens and Rey Mysterio

03:50 with an awesome Avalanche Styles clash on Rey onto Owens.

03:54 That means he'll face LA Knight on this coming Friday's show to determine the No.

03:58 1 contender for Cody Rhodes' undisputed WWE Championship at Backlash.

04:04 It's very likely AJ will get his win back overnight, to make a better heel Styles vs

04:09 babyface Cody dynamic for the PLE.

04:12 But with AJ getting a high profile main event spot, comments he made in a recent interview

04:16 have resurfaced, where he flat earth out said he don't want none.

04:21 More professional wrestling.

04:23 Speaking to the Ringer ahead of WrestleMania weekend, AJ said "I'm done.

04:27 I'm going to retire.

04:28 I'm getting to that point where I am worried about embarrassing myself.

04:32 My brain says we can do this.

04:33 My body is like, 'You're stupid.

04:35 We cannot do this.

04:36 We're hurting every day when we roll out of bed.'

04:39 At some point, this has to come to an end.

04:41 I'm getting close to the end.

04:43 I want to have that story and match to go with it before I leave WWE."

04:49 AJ made his pro wrestling debut in 1998, where he's wrestled for Ring of Honor, TNA, New

04:55 Japan, even WCW.

04:58 He signed with WWE in 2016 in that same New Japan call-up class they tried to get Tonga

05:03 in on too, where he would go on to get arguably the greatest Royal Rumble debut of all time

05:07 - even if the cameras missed it - gave John Cena one of the best matches of his career

05:11 the year after, and held the WWE title for over a year.

05:15 He was supposed to sign with AEW as the surprise debut for their first episode of Dynamite

05:20 in October 2019, but WWE reportedly offered him a lucrative $3 million a year sum.

05:27 He agreed a two year extension in 2022, which is thought to be up to this year, although

05:34 that could've been extended further because of time missed due to his ankle injury.

05:38 AJ has been speaking about retiring after his current contract expires because he wants

05:43 to spend more time with his family.

05:45 How would you book his final match?

05:47 Let me know in the comments.

05:49 Sadly, not everyone can decide when they're going to end their time at WWE.

05:54 Sometimes WWE decides it for you.

05:56 Following two corporate office releases last week - WWE's EVP of Talent Dan Ventrell

06:01 and Senior Vice President of Athlete ID and Development Trent Wilfinger - two more backstage

06:07 names have been let go.

06:09 PWInsider is reporting the 2019 Warrior Award recipient Sue Atchison was released from her

06:14 job last Friday.

06:16 While both Ventrell and Wilfinger had only been there for the past few years, Atchison

06:20 had been a WWE employee for over 38, first starting in 1986.

06:28 She is considered responsible for WWE's long-running relationship with the Make-A-Wish Foundation,

06:33 who honoured her twice in 2006 and 2016, and was heavily involved in the company's community

06:38 outreach programs.

06:40 PWInsider notes that while her responsibilities have been lessened as of late, she was considered

06:44 by many to be a WWE mainstay.

06:48 There was shock among longtime former employees, and was yet another sign of the end of the

06:53 old WWE era.

06:56 Because apparently we're in the Paul Levesque era now.

06:58 I don't know if they've told you that yet.

07:01 PWInsider also writes that former NXT UK wrestler and assistant general manager there Sid Scarla

07:06 is also gone from the company after six years.

07:09 They've been working as a producer and coach behind the scenes.

07:12 As for Ventrell, the talent relations name released last week, Fightful is reporting

07:17 a potential reason he was let go.

07:19 AJ isn't the only big WWE name with a contract expiring this year.

07:24 Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, Sheamus, Drew McIntyre and even the longest running female wrestler

07:30 WWE have Natalya have been constantly in the news because they have yet to re-sign too.

07:37 Apparently this isn't because TKO has a new way of doing contracts.

07:40 Fightful writes it's because talent didn't like Ventrell, the guy who's meant to be

07:44 doing them.

07:45 Fightful claims talent saw him as a big reason why so many contracts almost expired with

07:50 little to no communication about if or when a new deal would be offered to them.

07:56 It was agreed by many that he wasn't a good fit for the wrestling business.

08:01 All those expiring WWE contracts could make for a pretty exciting draft, though, with

08:05 AEW entering as a shoot fourth brand to sign talent.

08:08 The 2024 draft is set to start on the 26th April SmackDown and finish on the April 29th

08:14 Raw.

08:15 Fightful reports this is time to coincide with the NFL draft to capitalise on Draft

08:20 Fever.

08:21 Draft Fever, title of your next indie wrestling show.

08:23 One of the aims of this year's draft is to solidify NXT as a third brand, as opposed

08:28 to just developmental.

08:29 And it's reported main roster stars will be called down, or, I guess, across, to put

08:35 this in practice.

08:36 Ivar and the Final Testament's recent appearances on TV are meant to tease this idea.

08:42 As for NXT call-ups, or call-acrosses to the main/er, adjacent roster, Shawn Michaels has

08:49 told talent he doesn't know who that will be.

08:51 Although Carmelo Hayes and current NXT Champion Ilya Dragunov are said to be a lock for either

08:56 Raw or SmackDown.

08:57 Roxanne Perez's status, despite her showing up on RAM, aka Raw After Mania, is up in the

09:03 air.

09:04 Other names discussed for call-ups are Tony D'Angelo's family and Baron Corbin, who,

09:08 in the latter, would technically be a cool rebound.

09:11 But Tony D'Angelo might not have the only family in WWE soon.

09:16 Over the past week, WWE have been playing weird graphics on TV and cryptic music at

09:21 live events - just how they did ahead of Bray Wyatt's 2022 return with the White Rabbit

09:27 Viral Mystery.

09:28 This is thought to be for the WWE return of Bray's real-life brother Bo Dallas as the

09:33 Uncle Howdy character, which was teased at the end of Peacock's recent Bray Wyatt documentary.

09:38 The most recent TV tease came on Friday's SmackDown, where a graphic read 'You forgot

09:44 about us' - implying this is about more than just one person.

09:47 And going by Erick Rowan's Google Calendar, it might involve him.

09:52 East Coast Pro Wrestling have announced that Rowan, an original Wyatt Family member, has

09:56 had to cancel his appearance on the 20th April.

10:00 We have just received word this evening from Erick Rowan that, unfortunately, he will not

10:04 be able to make his scheduled appearance next week at Coal Town Carnage.

10:09 Erick stated that new contractual obligations are preventing him from making several dates,

10:14 including ours.

10:16 PWInsiderElite have since added Rowan was spotted recently in Pittsburgh, which is where

10:21 WWE wrestlers go to get medically cleared to perform.

10:25 Perhaps a new version of the Wyatt Family could debut as part of the draft.

10:30 Go watch the WrestleTalk Podcast channel for our review of everything that happened on

10:34 SmackDown and AEW Collision over the weekend.

10:37 In the meantime, here's a clip of us predicting WrestleMania 41… way too far in advance.

11:05 Here's what's next!

11:09 (laughing)

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